Manufactured Insecurity

Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place

Esther Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29564-3 (ISBN)

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Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

Esther Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Prologue
Introduction: Halfway Homeowners
1. The MobileHome in America and Americana2. Socio-Spatial Stigma and Trailer Trash
3. Daily Life Under the Specter of Dislocation
4. “We Are Not For Sure Wherever We Are”
5. Relocation and the Paradox of State Interventions
6. Communities as Currency Within the Mobile Home Empire
Conclusion

Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	17 halftones, 4 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-29564-1 / 0520295641
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29564-3 / 9780520295643
Zustand	Neuware